April 11
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April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining after April 11 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 146 – Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1357 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
- 1373 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March
- 1492 – Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
- 1568 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
- 1723 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
- 1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
- 1770 – George Canning, shortest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
- 1810 – Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
- 1819 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- 1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
- 1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and politician, United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)
- 1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist and pacifist (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1883 – Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (d. 1951)
- 1889 – Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)
- 1893 – Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
- 1896 – Wieland Herzfelde, publisher and author (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1908 – Leo Rosten, humorist, author (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Antonio de Spinola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier (d. 2011)
- 1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)
- 1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
- 1920 – Marlen Haushofer, author (d. 1990)
- 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
- 1930 – Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
- 1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor
- 1932 – Joel Grey, singer, actor, and dancer
- 1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist, broadcaster
- 1935 – Richard Berry, American singer, and composer (d. 1997)
- 1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass
- 1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
- 1944 – John Milius, director, writer
- 1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
- 1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
- 1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor
- 1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie producer (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
- 1951 – James Patrick Kelly, author
- 1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
- 1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish academic
- 1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
- 1955 – Julie Czerneda, author
- 1955 – Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
- 1957 – Marina Fitch, author
- 1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
- 1958 – Luisa Diogo, Mozambique Prime Minister
- 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter
- 1961 – Doug Hopkins, musician
- 1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer
- 1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
- 1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction author
- 1970 – Whigfield, Danish singer
- 1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musican (Rammstein)
- 1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player
- 1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player
- 1976 – Antonio Pacheco, Uruguayan footballer
- 1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
- 1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
- 1984 – Nikola Karabatic, French handball player
- 1987 – Joss Stone, English singer
- 1990 – Shohei Otsuka, Japanese footballer
- 1991 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
- 1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
[change] Deaths
- 1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine Emperor (b. 968)
- 1165 – King Stephen IV of Hungary (b. 1133)
- 1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
- 1771 – George Canning, Sr., father of George Canning (b. 1736)
- 1856 – Jose Santamaria, Costa Rican national hero (b. 1831)
- 1884 – Charles Reade, English writer (b. 1814)
- 1890 – Joseph Merrick, British man who was often referred to as the Elephant Man (b. 1862)
- 1921 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (b. 1858)
- 1950 – Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State (b. 1869)
- 1970 – John O'Hara, American writer (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Jacques Prevert, French poet (b. 1900)
- 1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian political leader (b. 1908)
- 1987 – Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
- 2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
- 2006 – Proof, American rapper (b. 1973)
- 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918)
[change] Events
- 672 – Adeodatus II is elected Pope.
- 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint monarchs of Scotland, England and Ireland.
- 1775 – Germany's last witchcraft execution takes place.
- 1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as Emperor of France, and is exiled on the island of Elba.
- 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, ending the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.
- 1912 – The Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York. This was its last stop before its sinking.
- 1945 – Buchenwald Concentration Camp is liberated.
- 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of his duties by US President Harry S. Truman.
- 1951 – The Stone of Scone, on which Scottish monarchs were crowned, is found in Arbroath, after it had been taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It is later officially returned to Scotland in 1996.
- 1954 – April 11, 1954 is allegedly the most boring day of the 20th century.
- 1961 – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is put on trial.
- 1968 – German activist Rudi Dutschke is shot. This indirectly leads to his death of an epileptic fit in 1979.
- 1970 – Apollo 13 launches with astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise on board.
- 1979 – Tanzanian troops enter Kampala, as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin flees.
- 1981 – Brixton riot One of three riots in Brixton, London happened on this day
- 1985 – Albania's head of state Enver Hoxha dies, and is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
- 2001 – In an association football match, Australia beats American Samoa 31-0, setting a record for an international match in the sport.
- 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is briefly removed from office in a US-backed coup, but is soon reinstated.
- 2006 – Italian crime boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested.
- 2007 – A terrorist bombing occurs in Algiers.
- 2011 – In Ivory Coast, the political crisis comes to an end after Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in Abidjan, with Alassane Ouattara becoming the next President.
- 2012 – Two earthquakes, including one of magnitude 8.2, strike off Sumatra, causing a tsunami alert.
